I'm a general partner and advisor to one of the most respected web hosts in the industry. Recently we have been having discussions on new offerings from our standard high-end shared hosting service and custom dedicated server services.

The vision is to provide different levels of VPS containers that are pre-loaded with Docker and/or Dokku. Your control panel would have,

* automated/scheduled backups to either our off-site redundant storage or your storage option of choice; single-click restores included with varying retention rates

* scaling options (both up and down)

* one-click installs of Docker and Dokku plugins

* configuration settings for your node and its software

* standard usage graphs and metrics

* support for multiple IPv4 addresses per node (justification required) and plenty of IPv6 (and it's ready on our network)

* clone a node; share node (e.g. you want to share this environment and running software; we'll clone it and share it to the user you specify)

* community-driven plugins and addons

* simple integration with third-party services like Heroku's marketplace

* multiple users with user level permissions

* an API, of course :)

There are of course things I'm not thinking of either.

The company owns 100% of its hardware and has 10 strong years being an industry-leader. There won't be any cutting corners with hardware like some similar providers: utilizing enterprise-grade SSDs as opposed to consumer-level drives.

Is this something you would use? Why or why not? This isn't by any means validating the idea, but on behalf of the company, I'd like to gauge potential interest with the small niche that is the hacker-heavy HN before we take the next step.